The Allen & Overy Podcast

Great Fund Insights: Spotlight on opportunities in alternative investments in South East Asia

This timely discussion is part of a series of Allen & Overy conversations on opportunities in alternative investments across our global funds network.

Singapore based partner, Yin Mei Lock and Middle East based counsel, Kamar Jaffer put the spotlight on South East Asia as they discuss opportunities in alternative investments, market trends and developments in the region. 

Topics discussed in this podcast include:

• Fund raising trends since Covid-19
• How managers have navigated the challenges brought on by Covid-19
• Transition to a virtual fund raising process
• Status of US-China trade relations
• Shifts in fund terms in favour of investors
• Models to attract investors to the Asia Pacific region
• Developments in secondaries
• Developments in ESG

This Great Fund Insights podcast will be of interest to sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, fund managers and portfolio companies with a focus on South East Asia.

 

A discussion with Zenzic, the coordinator of the UK’s efforts to develop advanced mobility services

In the latest installment of Propel, our podcast series on self-driving vehicles, Paul Keller interviews Daniel Ruiz, CEO of Zenzic, the UK agency leading the coordination of that country's testing and deployment of advanced mobility services. Listen to Paul and Daniel as they discuss the status of Zenzic's work, its collaboration with government, industry, and academia, Covid-19's impact on those efforts and its role in developing a model for other countries to use to prepare for AV technology.

Preparing for the end of the Brexit transition period – ten points relevant to mainstream debt capital market issuance

Whilst Brexit formally happened when the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, it has been treated as a Member State under Union law during the transition period established by the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement.  The transition period is scheduled to end on 31 December 2020, but it is still unclear whether the EU and the UK will reach a free trade agreement governing the future relationship.  Even if there is success on this front, the UK is still expected to leave the single market on 31 December and any free trade agreement is unlikely to have a tangible effect on the mainstream debt capital markets.  The points that parties considered ahead of a potential no-deal Brexit previously will again become relevant. 

In light of this (and to complement our recent updated bulletin), International Capital Markets partner Amanda Thomas and Jennifer Cresswell, a counsel in the International Capital Markets practice, discuss ten points for action and issues for consideration to assist issuers and other participants in the mainstream debt capital markets in preparing for the end of the transition period.